Hame-tug.



J. F. SGHOELLKOPF. HAME TUG.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 20, m2.

Patented Aug; 2 1913.

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Jaco 5 I W CfiOQZZJOFjf JACOB FREDERICK SCHOELLKOPF, OF DALLAS, TEXAS.

HAME-TUG.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 26,1913.

Application filed June 20, 1912. Serial No. 704,852.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JACOB F. SGHOELL- KOPF, citizen of the United States, residing at Dallas, Texas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Heme-Tags, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is designed to provide a simple form of heme tug, economical in its construction and vet furnishing a maximum degree of strength.

I aim to construct a hame tug with a metal loop at one end and the buckle at the other, the two metal extensions being eonneeted by a. draft iron which extends from end to end of the tug and centrally of the leather so that I secure a tug strengthened from end to end and a metal support for the terminals.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure l is a sectional View taken lengthwise of the tug, and Fig. 2 is a view of the parts broken away.

I have aimed to make as simple and as cheap a construction as possible and at the same time to add materially to its strength.

In constructing the tug I take a piece of leather (1, with an enlarged part b, and at the end of this leather, which is turned over as shown in the sectional View, an ordinary elongated slit is cut at (Z to receive the tongue of the huckle The buckle is tastencd to the end of the draft iron f by a loop 3 which passes around the cross bar of the buckle and is riveted to the draft iron shown. The enlarged cud of the tug is composed of four pieces of leather preferably, a base piece with a strcngthcning piece superimposed up n it, and two side pieces li. leaving a channel through which a draft iron pas e and above the draft iron is a com ering of leather I, which ci'ners lhc dratt iron from end to end. this covering extend ing beneath the box loo 1; The draft iron has an elongated slot and an opening near its end which is in line with a perforation through the leather of the tug at this point so as to permit of the attachment of any form of metallic loop.

It will be observed that. the metallic strengthening piece is at the simplest form, being a mere strip of steel extending through the lug trons cud to end and simply riveted at one end to the buckle and secured in an ordinary manne' at the other end to an ordinary metallic loop. No special prep aration of steel strengthening piece is necessary, and it is of a form that adapts it for use with hame tugs of ordinary construction which is a very important consideration, as such devices made of special construction could not be utilized except with special forms of hame tu s. It has been my principal object to avoid a special construction and to provide a form of draft iron capable of use in connection with the ordinary well known form of hame tug.

Referring to the oblong opening in the draft iron 7", at the point I, it will be noted that the leather covers this opening. but when the hame tug is put on the hamcs ot' the harness and attached to the same by a clip, a round hole is punched through the leather to register with the elongated opening. As the openings in the clip vary in the position or distance apart according to the. styles of clips used, the opening in the draft iron at Z is made long enough to accommodate the different clips that might be used.

\Vhnt I claim is:

In combination, a hame tug comprising a buckle, a straight rigid draft iron extending throughout the length of said lug, and provided at one end with a slotted loop arranged to engage the buckle, and provided near the opposite end with a. small perform lion and with an elongated slot suitably spaced therefrom, a leather covering comprising an upper and lower portion, two leather reinforcing pieces disposed on either side of said draft. iron and between the cover portions. said leather covcr portions being adapted to lw'punched in registration with said slot and thereby form one or more pcrl'oiations so as to register with the clon gated slot in said draft iron and adapted to be engaged by a hame clip of standard type. and a box loop secured by 1 d covering, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof, I allix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JACOB l ltl'lliERllli SCHOELLKOPF.

Witnesses:

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